Title: Why?
Last modified: March 16, 2021

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# Why?

 *  [Stephen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kosteph/)
 * (@kosteph)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-77/)
 * There’s no reason to have made this default editor. It looks like a beta product
   at best.
 * If you wanted to have an editor that’s more like a page builder, at least add
   drag & drop functionality. It’s 2021, after all.

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 *  anonymized-14293447
 * (@anonymized-14293447)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-77/#post-14285187)
 * …they annoyed us for years about avoiding page builders, and now WP has just 
   become one (or better, they think it has) 😀
 *  Plugin Author [Matias Ventura](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matveb/)
 * (@matveb)
 * [4 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-77/#post-14823436)
 * It does have drag and drop functionality. There are multiple ways to move blocks
   around — arrow movers, a “move to” feature, you can copy an entire block to relocate
   it, and there are drag handles in the block toolbar.

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